Zia Sardar in the New Statesman, lays bare the current obsession and courting of ‘ex Islamists’ by the media and Government. ‘To stand up and declare that you are an ex-fanatic or an ex-Muslim is now the shortest route to fame and fortune’, he writes. Why? Because...
The Sun reports on Sadiq Khan MP’s ‘Fairness not Favours’ pamphlet published by the Fabian Society, in typical lopsided style under the heading ‘Muslims think they are victims’. While listing extensively issues the Labour assistant whip thinks Muslims must tackle to...
The Sunday Times (14 Sept) reports that ‘Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases’. The paper claims that the courts’ prior status, working on the basis of voluntary compliance, has been superseded with the...
The Telegraph and Argus (14 Sept) carries a story on an Open Day being organised by Madni Jamia Masjid in Bradford on October 20th and 21st. The open day will inlcude an exhibition of the history of faith communities in Bradford and how they have evolved, including images of the city’s...
Commenting on the proposal before the UN General Assembly, and sponsored by the OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference) member states, to adopt a reolution on “Combating Defamation of Religion”, Clifford D. May writes in Europe News that ‘the ostensible purpose of “Combating...
Writing in the Daily Mail (11 Sept) on the outcome of the trial of Abdullah Ahmed Ali and seven other Muslims who were accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic airliners, and the expected retrial following the jury’s returned verdicts, Richard Littlejohn, remarking on how the jury...
Employers that allow employees time out to take smoking breaks should have no problem with Muslim employees taking short breaks to perform their daily prayers reports People Management. In an article by Adrian Hoggarth and Sarah Fuller of Norton Rose, the pair explain how employers can successfully...
Max Hastings also takes issue with the outcome of the terror trial of the seven Muslims. Writing in the Daily Mail (10 Sept) he argues that ‘more than a few British Muslims believe the police to be prejudiced against them. Polls show that hundreds of thousands publicly or...
Following the furore surrounding the publication of the ‘Islam on Campus’, report by the Centre for Social Cohesion (CfSC) in July 2008, Inayat Bunglawala, ENGAGE Advisor on Policy and Research, writes, ‘I have written previously about my misgivings concerning the “findings”...
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) comments on the findings of the report produced by the Cardiff School of Journalism on ‘Images of Islam in the UK’ (the report can be found under ‘useful links’) stating that the report reinforces a study done by the IIR in May 2008 on...
